Agriculture sector is at the crossroads economically, environmentally, socially and technologically. Shrinking land base and rampant unemployment are the marked features of our rural areas. There is need to commercialize and diversify Indian Agriculture to create agro-based employment opportunities in such a way that one can generate more income per unit of area. With liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation, the whole world has come to our local markets where farmers and their produce have to compete with multinationals in terms of quality and price. In this scenario entrepreneurship development can prove to be a gainful employment opportunity for our educated youth. Entrepreneurs are not born but can be developed through appropriate education skills development and guidance. The present book "Entrepreneurship Development in Agriculture" is aimed at providing the conceptual orientation of entrepreneurship and elaborating the three phases of entrepreneurship development viz. Entrepreneurial stimulation enterprise launching and enterprise sustenance. Besides these two more section agro enterprise options and designing trading for entrepreneurship development are providing the details of various technological options to take up as agro enterprise and various training modules for inculcating entrepreneurial spirit. The book is an outcome of document the experiences generated at Indian Agriculture Research Institute (IARI) which pioneered the efforts in this direction by establishing Entrepreneurship development Unit in 1995 in the Division of Agricultural Extension.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR J.P. Sharma
J.P. Sharma J is Working as a Senior Scientists and Scientists-Inchagrge, ATIC at IARI, New Delhi. He has a vast experience of over 19 years conducting research, guiding teaching post graduate students, conducting training programmes and carrying out agricultural extension work in the field. He earned his doctorate degree from IIT, Delhi and post graduation from GBPUAT, Pantnagar; being awarded fellowships from IIT and UNDP respectively. He is an accredited entrepreneurial motivational trainer. He has to his credit researches on highly relevant topics assessment refinement of agricultural technologies, peri urban agriculture and entrepreneurship development conducted as part of funded projects from reputed national/international agencies. Many models. Strategies and extension approaches as a result of these studies have now been incorporated in the present extension system. He has published more than two hundred papers in reputed journals, edited several books, bulletins and journals. Dr. Sharma is member of various professional; committees and has been invited as consultant by various organizations. He is a renowned communicator and trainer who can motivate people effectively. At present he has contributed a lot as Secretary, IFWA and Founder President, Society for Community Mobilization for Sustainable Development (Mobilization).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rashmi Singh
Rashmi Singh is workings a Senior Scientist in IARI, New Delhi. Her Doctoral Research work is on Women Entrepreneurship Development Process. She is an accredited Entrepreneurship Motivation trainer and has an experience of over 14 years in research, training, teaching and extension in the discipline. She has completed research projects on social issues in watershed development, sociological changes due to agricultural modernisation and on entrepreneurship development among rural youth. She has about 100 papers in various journals and magazines to her credit.
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